Hi everyone the problem is identical to this guy's post... www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t85763-unc-path-hyperlink-syntax.html If anyone can figure out the unbelievably precise solution, please enlighten me.
I have a html page (served by ASP.NET.. that shouldn't matter right ;) ) which has a hyperlink to a UNC Share. so <a id="something" href="file://///WinMachine/Share/Dir1/File.ext">Text</a> I needed 5 slashes for Firefox. IE worked with some internal magic.
Now here's the strange part. With the above syntax, the URL works in IE. It shows up in FireFox but doesn't work i.e. Click (nothing happens), right click menu (doesn't function). If I copy the link, open a new tab and paste it there, the Run_Or_Save dialog comes up (expected behavior) Next if I save the HTML locally and open it up in firefox, then the links work straight out of the page.
Spent the last 3 hours to get this thing work identically in both browsers... I have already tried the checkloaduri thing mentioned here. No luck! http://jspwiki.org/wiki/FAQGeneral#section-FAQGeneral-LinkingToUNCPaths
If anyone can help.. please do :) -- Gishu